http://unearthlysusan.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] unearthlysusan.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] realityshifted2009-01-25 08:36 pm

002 [A Stitch in Time]

[Susan is curled up in an armchair from the TARDIS Library. She has a bag of knitting materials on the floor next to her, a half completed stripy hat on her lap and, more importantly, a frown on her face. Rather than dwelling on some of the unpleasant thoughts that have surfaced since she arrived on the Plane, she's trying to honour a casually made - and, now she's spent some time on it, extremely foolish - promise.

Carefully, she studies the pattern book resting on the arm of the chair.

Victoria was so much better at this. She’d taught the other girl about the universe and the stars, and, in return, the Victorian girl had taught her how to knit. Susan is starting to realise that it might have been an unfair exchange...
]

Oh!

[She puts down the needles and sighs.]

I prefer mathematics.

[identity profile] swanseer.livejournal.com 2009-01-25 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sounding thrilled] Oh, knitting.

[identity profile] savagestime.livejournal.com 2009-01-25 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
That's because mathematics is inherently superior.

[identity profile] savagestime.livejournal.com 2009-01-25 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
The Trelunian tribe, hmm, 2932nd century, E.D.E., on the planet of Delarae in the Elestan spiral of the Wilaharka galaxy, I believe, wore hats like these all the time.

[identity profile] swanseer.livejournal.com 2009-01-25 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's the kind of thrilled where people die if that's any consolation]

I was never very good at it.
lamb_of_gold: (oh hey it's a shiny!)

[personal profile] lamb_of_gold 2009-01-25 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Knitting?

[identity profile] savagestime.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
[errrr...] Well, in, uh, the middle section, I suppose...

[identity profile] exserpens.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
There's something I don't think I've ever heard before.

[identity profile] salvagestime.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
[HATS-! I mean. Here is the Doctor catches a look at it but he smiles.] Practising?

[identity profile] exserpens.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
The mathematics bit, I meant.

—why, what planet are you from?

[identity profile] savagestime.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a very large universe. I'm sure somewhere out there, it works.

[identity profile] savagestime.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm, I've been lacking in a proper scarf. I don't know what it is, but it doesn't seem like any of the ones in the wardrobe even match me. They don't have the right... [and he waves his hand, as if he can conjure the word from air] sartorial elegance. They don't match my regeneration.

[identity profile] savagestime.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[an amused smile] I try to be in all of my regenerations, Susan.
lamb_of_gold: (I know something you don't know~)

[personal profile] lamb_of_gold 2009-01-27 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
Likely better than I would.

[identity profile] miseardae.livejournal.com 2009-01-27 09:04 am (UTC)(link)
[curious frown] Can't much blame you. [peers at her lap] You're...making a hat?

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